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<h2>
Chest measurements of 5738 Scottish Militiamen
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<h3>Description</h3>


<p>Quetelet's data on chest measurements of 5738 Scottish Militiamen. Quetelet (1846) used this
data as a demonstration of the normal distribution of physical characteristics.
</p>


<h3>Usage</h3>

<pre>data(ChestSizes)</pre>


<h3>Format</h3>


<p>A data frame with 16 observations on the following 2 variables.
</p>

<dl>
<dt><code>chest</code></dt><dd><p>Chest size (in inches)</p>
</dd>
<dt><code>count</code></dt><dd><p>Number of soldiers with this chest size</p>
</dd>
</dl>



<h3>Source</h3>


<p>Velleman, P. F. and Hoaglin, D. C. (1981). 
<EM>Applications, Basics, and Computing of Exploratory Data Analysis</EM>. Belmont. CA: Wadsworth.
</p>
<p>Statlib: <a href="http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/DASL/Datafiles/MilitiamenChests.html">http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/DASL/Datafiles/MilitiamenChests.html</a>
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<h3>References</h3>


<p>A. Quetelet, <EM>Lettres a S.A.R. le Duc Regnant de Saxe-Cobourg et Gotha, sur la Theorie des Probabilites, 
Appliquee aux Sciences Morales et Politiques</EM>. Brussels: M. Hayes, 1846, p. 400.
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<h3>Examples</h3>

<pre>
data(ChestSizes)
## maybe str(ChestSizes) ; plot(ChestSizes) ...

# frequency polygon
plot(ChestSizes, type='b')
#barplot
barplot(ChestSizes[,2], ylab="Frequency", xlab="Chest size")
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